On 07/15/16 at 10:33pm, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 18:46:32 +0200, ydirson@free.fr wrote: > > > In fact, it looks like libkms was built in the past, but is explicitely > > disabled now. There is probably a reason for this, but there is no more > > information than that in the changelog, and no README.Debian. > > > > Could we please have more insight about why this decision was made ? > > > libkms wasn't used/useful then, I'd need some convincing to re-enable > it. Perhaps it won't be useful in desktop systems or servers, but, as far as I see, it is useful in embedded, if you want to draw without any display server. But I agree, I only have one modest example: kmssink, a simple GStreamer video sink, targeted precisely to embedded systems. Recently I ended up installing Fedora because it ships libkms. Thanks vmjl
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